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Message Mountain Lion and Notification Center Question

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  • 10-08-2012 10:49am
    #1
    unnamed
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I decided to try out Messages on Mountain Lion instead of Adium, because Adium doesn't support iMessages (yet ... http://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage).

    So far I like it, I don't need to see buddy list, and I like the fact that the GUI doesn't need to be running to receive messages.

    What I don't like is the fact that when the first message is received in a new chat, Messages loads up and takes the focus. This is especially annoying when I'm running another app in full screen mode, this causes the Desktop (space) to switch before Messages loads. All I would like is the Notification Center alert to appears and disappear and I can decided if I want to answer it myself.

    - I've removed all the Alerts from preferences, but that made no difference.
    - The notification center preference don't appear to help.

    I was hoping someone that is used to iChat could point me in the correct direction?

    Thanks.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,671 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but this never happens to me. Never happened with iChat either. When a new message arrives the app stays in the background.

    You are talking about the app jumping to the front, yes? Not the alert from Notification Centre?


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    #3
    unnamed
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭unnamed


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but this never happens to me. Never happened with iChat either. When a new message arrives the app stays in the background.

    You are talking about the app jumping to the front, yes? Not the alert from Notification Centre?

    Thanks. Yes, the app is jumping to the front. Do you keep Messages/iChat app open all the time?


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    #4
    unnamed
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭unnamed


    Hi,

    If the Messages App is running (it doesn't have to be to receive new messages) the focus problem won't happen.

    If the app is not running, it gets launched when a new message is received and the app takes the focus.


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    bkehoe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    My messages app never automatically starts and pops up when an iMessage is received.... the message simply appears in the notification centre!


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    #6
    unnamed
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭unnamed


    Odd ...

    I might trash my preferences and see if that fixes it.


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